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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 6 April 2006
- ISBN 9780199290635
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 240x163x20 mm
- Weight 507 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Hendrik Lorenz presents a comprehensive study of Plato's and Aristotle's conceptions of non-rational desire. They see this as something that humans share with animals, and which aims primarily at the pleasures of food, drink, and sex. Lorenz explores the cognitive resources that both philosophers make available for the explanation of such desires, and what they take rationality to add to the motivational structure of human beings. In doing so, he finds conceptions of the mind that are coherent and deeply integrated with both philosophers' views about such topics as the relation between body and soul, or the nature of the virtues.
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Hendrik Lorenz presents a comprehensive study of Plato's and Aristotle's conceptions of non-rational desire. They see this as something that humans share with animals, and which aims primarily at the pleasures of food, drink, and sex. Lorenz explores the cognitive resources that both philosophers make available for the explanation of such desires, and what they take rationality to add to the motivational structure of human beings. In doing so, he exposes a remarkable degree of continuity between Plato's and Aristotle's thought in this area. He also sheds fresh light, not only on both philosophers' theories of motivation, but also on how they conceive of the mind, both in itself and in relation to the body.
Hendrik Lorenz offers a challenging, tightly argued exploration of the non-rational parts of the soul in Plato and Aristotle... strongly recommended to those interested in Plato's reasons for dividing the soul and his thinking about non-rational motivation in such dialogues as Republic Timaeus and Philebus
Table of Contents:
Introduction
I. Appetite and Reason in Plato's Republic
Parts of the soul
The argument for tripartition
Partition
The simple picture
II. Belief and Appearance in Plato
Imitation and the soul
Belief and reason
Below belief and reason
III. Phantasia and Non-Rational Desire in Aristotle
Preliminaries
Phantasia, desire, and locomotion
Desire without phantasia
The workings of phantasia
Phantasia and practical thought
Reason and non-rational desire
Conclusion
